Meet our Managing Partners

 

 
 

David C. Porter
Managing Partner

Since August of 1996, Dave Porter has been the owner and Managing Partner of Baystate Financial Services, LLC, one of Massachusetts’ oldest and largest full service financial firms. 

Dave started in the insurance business in Philadelphia, PA in 1983. He moved to Washington, D.C. in 1991 and on to Boston in 1996. Under Dave’s direction, Baystate Financial Services has thrived, growing over 20% in each of the past ten years.

Since becoming a Managing Partner in 1992, Dave’s agencies have won numerous awards including seven consecutive President’s Trophy Awards and most recently a GAMA International First in Class Award as well as several Master Agency Awards. In 2006, Dave was one of the first inductees into the New England Financial Hall of Fame.
 

Dave is a National Speaker on building Financial Services Organizations and is also extremely active in the Boston community. Along with creating the Baystate Financial Services Charitable Foundation to increase the agency’s involvement in the local community, Dave hosts an Annual Charity Golf Tournament to benefit the DSS Kids Fund, Inc. and coordinates an Annual Holiday Toy Drive for children in the Department of Social Services in the Boston and Worcester areas. He recently helped launch Friends of the Children – Boston, a non-profit organization that hires mentors to work with the city’s most at-risk youth.  Dave is also a past Chairman of the Young Presidents Organization.


 

 
Michael Yoken
Partner
 
Michael Yoken has been with Baystate Financial Services since November of 1996. Before being named Partner in 2004, Mike was a Managing Associate at Baystate overseeing a sales team that consisted of over 25 new and experienced agents, many of whom consistently reached the Leaders or Hall of Fame level of production each year. 
 
Mike also managed Baystate Financial’s detached office in Wakefield, MA one of the largest within New England Financial. In addition to qualifying for Leaders, Mike was named New England Financial’s Managing Associate of the Year five years in a row, 1999 through 2003.
 
Mike is an active member of his community and is on the Board of Directors for the North Andover Youth Hockey League.